Kalix
Kalix is a locality and the seat of the Kalix Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden. The name Kalix is believed to originate from the Sami word Gáláseatnu, or "Kalasätno", meaning "The cold river" the ancient name of the Kalix River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,300 residents
- Description: urban area in Kalix Municipality, Sweden
- Also known as: “Kaihnuu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Folkets hus, Kalix and Galleria Kalix.
Folkets hus, Kalix
Community center
Photo: Villr99, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Folkets hus, Kalix is a community center.
Kalix
- Categories: urban area in Sweden and locality
- Location: Kalix Municipality, Norrbotten County, Norrland, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
65.85892° or 65° 51′ 32″ northLongitude
23.14033° or 23° 8′ 25″ eastPopulation
7,300Inception
<1579United Nations Location Code
SE KAXOpen location code
9GQ5V45R+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 28986516OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Xhosa—“Kalix” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kalix”
- Arabic: “كاليكس”
- Arabic: “كليكس”
- Armenian: “Կալիքս”
- Bulgarian: “Каликс”
- Catalan: “Kalix”
- Cebuano: “Kalix (kapital sa munisipyo sa Suwesya)”
- Cebuano: “Kalix”
- Chinese: “Kalix”
- Chinese: “卡利克斯”
- Danish: “Kalix”
- Dutch: “Kalix”
- Esperanto: “Kalix”
- Faroese: “Kalix”
- Finnish: “Kainuu”
- Finnish: “Kalix”
- French: “Kalix”
- German: “Kalix”
- Icelandic: “Kalix”
- Irish: “Kalix”
- Italian: “Kalix”
- Japanese: “カーリクス”
- Japanese: “チョリス”
- Kurdish: “Kalix”
- Ladin: “Kalix”
- Lule Sami: “Gájnaj”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kalix”
- Northern Frisian: “Kalix”
- Northern Sami: “Gáinnas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalix”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kalix”
- Norwegian: “Kalix”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kalix”
- Persian: “کلیکس”
- Polish: “Kalix”
- Portuguese: “Kalix”
- Romanian: “Kalix”
- Russian: “Каликс”
- Slovenian: “Kalix”
- Spanish: “Kalix”
- Swedish: “Kalix”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Kainus”
- Ukrainian: “Калікс”
- Volapük: “Kalix”
- Xhosa: “I-Kalix”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kalix”. Photo: Xauxa, CC BY-SA 3.0.